AIMS To determine if participants can reduce foot progression angle (FPA), and if FPA reduction decreases regional plantar stresses and forces in individuals with diabetes. METHODS Design: Three-group cross-sectional design with repeated measures. subjects: twenty-eight participants either with diabetes mellitus (DM), diabetes and peripheral neuropathy with (DMPN+NPU) or without a prior histo...

Robotic devices are being developed to automate repetitive aspects of walking retraining after neurological injuries, in part because they might improve the consistency and quality of training. However, it is unclear how inconsistent manual training actually is or whether stepping quality depends strongly on the trainers' manual skill. The objective of this study was to quantify trainer variabi...

In this paper an unsupervised scheme for stereoscopic video object extraction is presented based on a neural network classifier. More particularly, the procedure includes: (A) A retraining algorithm for adapting neural network weights to current conditions and (B) An active contour module, which extracts the retraining set. The retraining algorithm takes into consideration both the former and t...

This paper addresses the problem of semi-supervised classification on document collections using retraining (also called self-training). A possible application is focused Web crawling which may start with very few, manually selected, training documents but can be enhanced by automatically adding initially unlabeled, positively classifiedWeb pages for retraining. Such an approach is by itself no...

Background: Development and increasing acceptance of rehabilitation robots as well as advances in technology allow new forms of therapy for patients with neurological disorders. Robot-assisted gait therapy can increase the training duration and the intensity for the patients while reducing the physical strain for the therapist. Optimal training effects during gait therapy generally depend on ap...

In this paper, we report our investigations on the use of adaptation and retraining in our bilingual (Italian, German) and multidialectal recognition system. Our approach for bilingual speech recognition is to assume the two languages as being one, which is best suited for a task where Italian and German natives speak both languages, resulting in a variety of accents and dialects. We performed ...

In vocational retraining centres, a test battery including several performance tests is generally administered to assess the occupational aptitude of rehabilitants and to predict their success in occupational retraining. This paper presents the multiple regressions of a set of achievement scores on "grades of retraining" and "grades of final examination", respectively, concerning retraining to ...